Boot and Blade

Posted on December 11th, 2011 under Skating Thoughts. Tags: adult figure skating, Adult Figure Skating Competition, Oberstdorf. Comments: 1

With Worlds underway in Moscow this week I was especially captivated reading the chapter “The Art of Failure” in Malcom Gladwell’s latest book, What the Dog Saw. In this article, originally published in the New Yorker in 2000, Gladwell investigates the difference between choking and panicking.
According to Gladwell (and the scientists he interviews) panic [...]

Posted on April 30th, 2011 under Skating Thoughts. Tags: Brian Joubert, Cynthia Phaneuf, Malcolm Gladwell, World Figure Skating Championships 2011. Comments: None

Regular readers will have noticed my lack of enthusiasm for the beginning of this year’s figure skating season. I was ready for it all to begin in September, but was reminded watching Skate Canada and Skate America that it is indeed four years till Sochi. That means many new, young faces and the start of [...]

Posted on November 17th, 2010 under Events, Skating Thoughts. Comments: None

Seven-time Canadian Champion Elvis Stojko has been speaking out about a lack of masculinity in the men’s figure skating event. As a life-long figure skating fan, I too have seen a rise in effeminate costumes and choreography. When Dick Button, Brian Boitano and Kurt Browning were skating, men didn’t do ladylike layback spins or make [...]

Posted on February 27th, 2010 under Skating Thoughts. Tags: elvis Stojko, Johnny Weir, men's figure skating. Comments: 2

Joannie Rochette was more than 13 points ahead of Mao Asada when she won the Trophée Eric Bompard Cachemire competition last weekend. More than 13 points ahead of a world champion. That must be music to the ears of the Canadian champ from Île-Dupas, Quebec, who looks like a different woman on the ice this [...]

Posted on November 17th, 2008 under Skaters, Skating News, Skating Thoughts. Tags: choreography, joannie rochette, Lori Nichol, Shae-Lynn Bourne. Comments: 1

Yesterday my husband was reviewing his music collection and played a few tunes I hadn’t heard in a long time. One was “Revolution” by The Beatles. I was immediately reminded of the mind blowing “Revolution” dance piece by Torvill and Dean, first performed in 1989. I’ve always loved this piece and remember how very surprising [...]

Posted on June 11th, 2008 under Nostalgia, Skaters, Skating Thoughts. Tags: Christopher Dean, Ice Dance, Jayne Torvill, Revolution, The Beatles, Torvill and Dean. Comments: 1